Balanophora plants represent an extreme example of this shift. They do not produce their own food through photosynthesis but ...

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In an underwater nursery just off the Dominican Republic coast, tiny corals born in a laboratory are slowly growing under the ...

Balanophora lost photosynthesis long ago but kept tiny plastids that run key chemistry and shows how forest parasites adapt ...

The study reveals how Balanophora plants function despite abandoning photosynthesis and, in some species, sexual reproduction ...

“My long-standing aim is to rethink what it truly means to be a plant,” Kenji Suetsugu, a botanist at Kobe University in ...

Plant reproduction is the production of new individuals from one or more parent plants. This can be accomplished by sexual or asexual means. This study shows that the wheat major QTL gene-encoded ...